About Mild Concern
Snobbish, scatty, ill-informed, inconsistent and not as funny (or clever) as we think we are. Mild Concern is a UK-based website celebrating film, TV and the arts. This site is maintained and updated by life long fans of film, TV and the rest.
If you need to get in touch for any reason – to contribute, invite us to an exciting event or want to whisk us away from this dreary life – contact details are on the right.
Tim Brandon
Films and TV have always been a treat for Tim, rooted in the days when there was nothing better than staying up late on a Friday night for uncut Buffy on the BBC, or pushing back bedtime with his dad to watch classic Hitchcock or vintage horrors such as Island of Terror. After a scientific detour at University, Tim is celebrating his love for audio-visual storytelling by editing Mild Concern. Just don’t ask him to explain the name.
Mild Concern was designed to combat everything rotten in the world of film sites: regurgitated press releases and lists spread over 50 different pages. With a deluded belief in the so-called “Brandon Bump”, Tim credits himself with launching the career of Zooey Deschanel and now won’t shut up about Felicity Jones. When backed into a corner he will rant at you about James Cameron and then insist that you watch Brick; the two are not related. Tim has not seen The Godfather, but has seen both Bridget Jones films. Go figure.
Kat Kam
Having wandered haphazardly through both the sciences and literary arts in her attempts at becoming educated, Kat’s vast employment history is equally unfocused. She has worked as a production editor, care assistant in a nursing home, research manager in the financial services and social tutor for the deaf-blind. However, it was her student job in a multiplex cinema – and with it a lot of free tickets – that ignited her love for film. Although it took a blow after being made to watch Two Weeks Notice twice in a week. At Mild Concern, she spends the vast proportion of her time randomly deleting or adding punctuation in her fellow writers’ work and humouring Tim by accompanying him to mediocre films starring Felicity Jones. She is convinced that one day she will have to stage an intervention.
Kat is an absolute sucker for any film involving a British individual/group overcoming the odds in an unlikely way to succeed, in the manner of Brassed Off, Calendar Girls and Billy Elliott. The three films she most regrets paying good money to see are Unfaithful, The [Nicholas Cage remake] Wicker Man and The Matrix Revolutions.
Stephen Bowron
Stephen is a pauper from the north of England who currently writes for numerous film blogs based around the UK.
Growing up respecting the simple things in life, Stephen found sanctity in his rare trips to the cinema which lead to his desire of pursuing a future of some kind in that world.
After somehow haggling his way through a Bachelor’s degree in Film & Media at Sunderland University he moved to London on a whim to chase his dreams of becoming a “moovie jernorlist”. Since then he has worked four retail jobs and spends his evenings sobbing, reassuring himself that he will one day become a professional writer.
Along with long walks on the beach Stephen’s biggest passion, writing about film and television, is beaten only by watching film and television. Finally, if he had it his way, the world would eat only beef lasagne and watch continual repeats of the American television series Lost. Read more of Stephen’s words on his portfolio.
